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    No new distro is working on Aceer Aspire 9300

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by punctweb, Oct 24, 2007.

  1. punctweb

    punctweb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello again, long time no read...

    I have a problem: i can't install any recent linux distro on my Acer Aspire 9300 notebook...

    I tried: openSUSE 10.3, Ubuntu 7.10, FedoraCore 7, Mandriva 2008 (either Gnome or KDE flavor). All of them are refusing to install... they are just crashing during initial boot, the one before the set-up process...

    The only distro that i have managed to install (flawless actually) is Mandriva 2007.0 but i want to have a recent linux distribution (i prefer openSUSE but Ubuntu will do also).

    Does anyone managed to install a recent linux distro on an Acer Aspire 9300 or had heard of this kind of problems ? Is there something wrong with my hardware ? (if you need detailed configuration of the notebook i will provide it)

    Thank you in advance.

    Later Edit: I just finished installing opensSUSE 10.2. The set-up was flawless. From this point i jump to the conclusion that is something "spookie" with these new linux distros... something does not goes along with my notebook hardware... but i'm just curios what's that ?
     
    punctweb, Oct 24, 2007
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    It's almost certainly something to do with ACPI. Linux tries to detect the full ACPI setup on install, and Windows tends to need drivers after the fact. Linux unfortunately just tends to not work well with ACPI because all laptops have different implementations, all slightly non-standard.
     
    Pitabred, Oct 25, 2007
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  3. punctweb

    punctweb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok, at least now i know what's the problem... Is there a solution for it ? Maybe something to disable / enable ?

    Thank you in advance.
     
    punctweb, Oct 26, 2007
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    Sredni Vashtar Notebook Evangelist

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    Many distros usually have cheatcodes to enable/disable features during install.
    Try reading the documentation of the installer and see what you have to add, or remove, from the boot string in order to install it properly.

    (Google+$DistroNAME+cheatcodes) might do the trick.
     
    Sredni Vashtar, Oct 26, 2007
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    /noacpi /noapic are common "cheat codes", which prevent ACPI and APIC from loading. Without ACPI, you'll lose a lot of functionality of course, like brightness control, etc.
     
    Pitabred, Oct 26, 2007
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    hjubal Newbie

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    I use my Acer Aspire 9300 (9302WSMi) with Debian Etch amd64 without any problem: audio, wlan, acpi, cpu scaling with full support.
    No need to use cheats like '/noacpi' '/noapic' to prevent ACPI and APIC from loading during installation.
     
    hjubal, Oct 28, 2007
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    punctweb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you for your answers :)

    I think i made a bubu though... i did not try to install the 64 bits versions of the distros... hjubal gave me the idea... maybe this is the problem ?
     
    punctweb, Oct 29, 2007
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